Every year, thousands of young men at college campuses across the U.S. rush fraternities.
Their reasons for joining these groups might vary. Most probably want to make more friends and have a full social calendar, while others might want to form connections with past and current brothers that could be useful in later life.
We combed through a bunch of fraternities notable members lists to find big Wall Street names, both past and present, who were brothers.
We've included a round up of frats that have produced some of the biggest, and in a couple cases some of the most infamous, names on the Street.
Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT)
Notable Wall Street members: SAC Capital's Steve Cohen (UPenn), former chairman of Bear Stearns Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Cantor Fitzgerald vice chairman Stuart Fraser (University of Missouri)
Founded: December 29, 1898 (114 years) City College of New York
Nickname: "ZBT" or "Zebe"
Mission Statement:"The mission of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity (ZBT) is to foster and develop in its membership the tenets of its Credo: Intellectual Awareness, Social Responsibility, Integrity and Brotherly Love, in order to prepare its members for positions of leadership and service within their communities.
"Mindful of its founding in 1898 as the Nation's first Jewish Fraternity, ZBT will preserve and cultivate its relationships within the Jewish community. Since 1954, ZBT has been committed to its policy of non-sectarian Brotherhood, and values the diversity of its membership. ZBT will recruit and initiate men of good character, regardless of religion, race or creed who are accepting of these principles."
Size: over 140,000 initiated
Alpha Tau Omega (ΑΤΩ)
Famous Wall Street members: Lehman Brothers ex-CEO Dick Fuld (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Founded: September 11, 1865 Virginia Military Institute
Nickname(s): "ATO" or "Taus"
Mission Statement:"To bind men together in a brotherhood based upon eternal and immutable principles, with a bond as strong as right itself and as lasting as humanity; to know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to know man as man, to teach that true men the world over should stand together and contend for supremacy of good over evil; to teach, not politics, but morals; to foster, not partisanship, but the recognition of true merit wherever found; to have no narrower limits within which to work together for the elevation of man than the outlines of the world: these were the thoughts and hopes uppermost in the minds of the founders of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity."
Delta Upsilon (ΔΥ)
Famous Wall Street members: Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MIT)
Founded: November 4, 1834 Williams College
Nickname:"DU"
Mission/Vision Statement: "Delta Upsilon is the premier men's fraternity committed to Building Better Men for a global society through service, leadership development, and lifelong personal growth of our diverse membership."
Size: 3,700 undergraduate and 80,000 living alumni
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